She might have gotten five points, but she wrote 630 words, which loses her 10 points.

I take it you can cite the exact prompt and point us to the reading the essay was supposed to respond to

Actually, a lot of this is probably connected to ADHD, which seems to partner with dissociation a lot. I didn’t have the bandwidth for normal adult human identity integration.

I think some of that is normal. But it’s like ADHD — everyone forgets why they went into a room, but not everybody forgets every time. I don’t think most people have as extensively siloed a sense of the past, an almost total discontinuity and lack of identity integration.

It’s not even my past. My present incarnations: arts editor, guy completing Jewish studies degree, etc. are barely in touch with each other.

I didn’t. I thought that‘s how everyone experiences their past.

I think most people don’t know that the Torah only has about 6,000 unique word, or about 1/5th the total unique words used by the Wu Tang Clan in their songs

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There is actually extensive scholarly work on this: Trible, Frymer-Kensky, Meyers, etc. But I suppose “God made Adam and Eve” — itself an incredibly dense and complicated text, especially refracted through later rabbinic writing -- is supposed to just be a thought-terminating cliche here.

There are overlapping and competing genders structures in the text: patriarchal, mythic (traces of goddess worship abound), priestly purity law-based, domestic, court politics, etc.

We have Deborah as a judge and military leader, roles almost exclusively reserved for men elsewhere.

In Proverbs 31, a woman is a merchant, investor, farmer, textile producer, and household executive.

Even though the Bible does say the word gender, it’s very possible to use it as a document of shifting gender roles and expectations — because they shift in the text itsel.

This article seems to be arguing about biological sex, not gender, so the whole thing may be a category error